Changes: Ghoul

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A ghoul is a living creature who contracts the darkspawn taint and manages to survive. Humanoid creatures develop a blotchy look and a sickly tone to their skin, while the effects on animals are somewhat more drastic.

Humanoids

The term ghoul is actually derived from the behavior and mannerisms associated with people who have become corrupted. Once infected, a ghoul will seek out the darkspawn, who often use them as as craftsmen^[1] or even sometimes eat them,^[2] although not for dietary reasons.^[3] The constant, slow exposure to the taint drives these souls to turn on their fellow captives, cannibalizing them whilst in the grips of maddening pain and the will of the Archdemon,^[2] whose call they start to hear.

Female ghouls are usually made broodmothers by the darkspawn. They are force-fed on darkspawn tissue which gives them cannibalistic urges but also mutates them. Despite their eventual transformation, broodmothers are still categorized as ghouls.^[3]

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Origins.

The Grey Wardens have been able to survive the taint by undergoing the Joining, however it is only a temporary escape as with progression of age the taint will spread and turn them into ghouls. When the taint advances enough in their bodies, they start to hear the calling of the Old Gods and know that is their time to travel to the Deep Roads to seek out an honorable death as part of their Calling.

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Red Templars are Templars who have been transformed by red lyrium technically making them ghouls, due to the fact that red lyrium has been afflicted with the taint.

Animals

Animals which turn into ghouls grow bigger and become exceptionally aggressive with some of them growing spikes and other strange mutations. It is not rare to find ghouls fighting alongside darkspawn.

These are the known tainted animal species:

Bereskarn were originally bears.
Blight owls were originally owls.
Blight wolves were originally wolves.
Blighted werewolves were originally werewolves.
Bloodcrows were originally crows.
Corrupted spiders were originally spiders.
Dragon thralls were originally dragons.
Dar'Hall'n were originally Halla.

This section contains spoilers for:
Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Infected giants are a group of giants that have been infected by red lyrium.
The Red lyrium dragon is a high dragon that Corypheus has personally corrupted using red lyrium.

Notable ghouls

Gallery

Trivia

Revengers are Dalish ghouls that are possessed by Rage Demons.

References

↑ Codex entry: Armored Ogre
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Codex entry: Ghoul
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Gaider, David (18 July, 2010). "What do darkspawn eat?" . The BioWare Forum. Retrieved on March 4, 2014.
↑ Mike Laidlaw Twitter.

[1] Codex entry: Armored Ogre

[codex-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Codex entry: Ghoul

[eat-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Gaider, David (18 July, 2010). "What do darkspawn eat?" . The BioWare Forum. Retrieved on March 4, 2014.

[4] Mike Laidlaw Twitter.

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